That one year it was in Troy, so was I. Actually kind of fun to cover. All the guys who finished playing after the third quarter we were allowed to interview on the sidelines during the fourth.

My memories of it, though, are from my childhood, when it was background noise at my family's Christmas celebration. If the Gray team won, my grandfather would say "the South will rise again." Much like me, he forgot the jokes he told before, so he thought it was funny each time.

It was fun to see the players with 6-8 logos from different teams on their helmets by the end of the game. I assume players from even bad teams being on TV weekly made the novelty of the game go away, making the game expendable